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" This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives? "
Eric McCormack
Historical
Will
Future
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" At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef. "
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" There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere. "
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" If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood. "
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" I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.' "
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" I'm still a kid. I stretched it out. "
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" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "
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" I needed to start pulling at this other sort of funnier, lighter side. So I auditioned for everything. I auditioned for 'Friends,' even. "
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" We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers. "
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" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "
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" I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will). "
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Think
" I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. "
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" I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me. "
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Me
Bedroom
" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "
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Between
Any
" As much as I loved Pacino and De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms. I grew up on 'M*A*S*H' and 'All In The Family' and 'Cheers.' And then around this time - this would have been '95, '96 - I was so into 'Friends' and 'Mad About You,' the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. "
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" You're damned in success a little bit. "
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You
Success
" The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them. "
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Gay
People
Need
" As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. "
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Image
Power
" I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. "
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Talk
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Funny
" I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact. "
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" Not a big sci-fi guy. "
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" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "
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" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "
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Walk
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" My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond. "
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" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "
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You
Long
" I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor. "
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" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "
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" I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments. "
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End
" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "
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" Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. "
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" I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own. "
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